WEST NORTH WEST

LGBT story between Iranian woman and Japanese woman sets in Tokyo. Kei works at a cocktail bar, while Ai works as a model. Fearing she’ll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and as a result, she becomes distressed and lonely. One day, Kei gets close to Naima, an Iranian student studying art in Japan. Ai quickly becomes jealous of them and their budding relationship. Kei gradually becomes pessimistic as she thinks about a future with Ai, and Ai worries that she will lose Kei. In the meantime, Naima is having a hard time understanding what Kei wants despite growing closer to her. All three of them are embarrassed and insecure but eventually they begin to share their emotions.

KEENING WOMAN

The story of Cotton a worker in a funeral home, who finds herself slipping into the world of ghosts. In just a few hours, at an unusual love motel on the outskirts of Bangkok called Motel Mistress, our (human) lives inter twine and change forever.

Market: Worldwide, except for Hong Kong

OTHER FILMS:

DEAR PYONGYANG

Japan / 107 mins
Directed by Yonghi Yang / Documentary

A young girl's father sends her three brothers from Japan to a live permanently in a homeland foreign to them -- North Korea. In this autobiographical documentary spanning ten years, the daughter left behind, filmmaker Yonghi Yang, struggles to understand why her loving father would destroy his family out of political loyalty to an isolated and enigmatic regime.

TAKING FATHER HOME

100 mins
Directed by Ling Ying / Drama

With little more than a pair of geese in a basket and the clothes on his back, Xu Yun, a determined 17-year old boy from rural Szechwan, China journeys to the big city to find his father, who left home six years previously and has not been heard from since. Shot without the consent of the Chinese government, Ying Liang's Taking Father Home, depicts on a poignantly human scale the consequences of rapid industrialization.

IDOLS IS DEAD

62 mins
Directed by Yukihiro Kato / Horror Musical Comedy

Yukihiro Kato's "Idol is Dead" brings together the campiness of Japanese indie films but also the crazy and exciting vibe from the idol group Brand-New idol Society (BiS).

THE ROOM

81 min
Directed by David Shin / Mocumentary Horror

Staring Shogen and Ayumi Ito, a Japanese mocumentary horror sets in the apartment room.

FLASHBACK MEMORIES

Japan / 72 mins
Directed by Tetsuaki Matsue / Music Documentary

GOMA who was famous didgeridoo performer from Japan. He developed higher brain dysfunction as a result of car accident and lost his memory of what a didgeridoo was. He looks back on his rehabilitation and recovery. A story of "past", "present" and "future" of GOMA.

SUMMER ON THE FRONTLINE

Japan / 94 mins
Directed by Tetsuya Matsushima / War Drama

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land. Then they have known the Japanese boys' story in China in the end of the Second Sino-Japanese war. It is a true story that 120 Japanese junior-high students were left behind as victims of the Kwantung Army on the borders of China and Soviet Union in the fires of war and fortunately helped by people who lived in a small village 'Sekitouson' in China. Keisuke and fellows relive the past the story tells and realize to link together between past and present. They finally meets an old man, lives in 'Sekitouson', who send the equipment to them and invited them. They also find out that a man is one of Japanese boys in the story...

SHADY

94 mins
Directed by Ryohei Watanabe / Coming of Age Horror Thriller

Winner of the Entertainment Award at the PIA Film Festival, Ryohei Watanabe's debut film tells the tale of a dark relationship between two very different girls.

PECOROSS' MOTHER AND HER DAYS

113 mins
Directed by Azuma Morisaki / Comedy Drama

Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, Mitsue (Harue Akagi) is a constant source of comic energy or annoyance for Yuichi, and he and his son must soon decide if they should put her in a home for the elderly.

NEW WORLD <SHINSEKAI STORY>

92 mins
Directed by Kah-wai Lim / Cross-Cultural Drama

Coco, a Beijing modern girl wants to spend a romantic and fancy Christmas vacation in Osaka. However the place where she gets in is Shinsekai( "New World" in English, is an old neighbourhood located next to south Osaka city's downtown "Minami " area, as known as one of the most poorest and dangerous area in Osaka.)When she arrives there, she starts feeling regret and frustrated by the encounters and the landscapes which are far beyond her expectation. Suddenly she is involved in an incident surrounds a Chinese family there, meanwhile she starts fascinated by Shinsekai through her wondering. In this short and unusual Christmas vacation, Coco discovers a "Japan " she never knows and a "China" that she is not familiar with.

FLY ME TO MINAMI

103 mins
Directed by Kah-wai Lim / Cross-Cultural Romantic Drama

In this coming of age story, a fashion editor, a photographer, a shopkeeper, and a flight attendant are explored over three countries. The lives, loves, and careers of these characters are chronicled in a tale of heartbreak, laughter and truth.

SANGUIVOROUS

Japan / 56 mins
Directed by Naoki Yoshimoto / Experimental Horror

A young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments is horrified to discover that she's descended from generations of vampires. When with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it's in her blood...